Defence council casts doubt on gun collection

The defence counsel for one of the four men accused of shooting a Limerick bouncer standing trial at the Central Criminal Court has told the chief prosecution witness that he could not have gone to collect a gun from his client at any point on the day of the murder.

James Martin Cahill who is currently serving a life sentence for shooting dead Mr Brian Fitzpatrick in November 2005 told Mr Michael O'Higgins SC, defending accused man Anthony Kelly, that he had a meeting with two men on the eve of the murder, who cannot be named for legal reasons, in a thatched pub near Portlaoise where it was arranged he would pick up a gun from Kelly and may have also discussed the murder.